New Men: Manliness in Early America

About the Contributors

| 269 About the Contributors Susan Abram is an Independent Scholar and Adjunct Professor of History at Western Carolina University. She is the author of “The Cherokees in the Creek War” in Kathryn H. Braund, ed., The Creek War and The War of 1812 in Alabama (forthcoming). Tyler Boulware is Assistant Professor of History at West Virginia University . He is the author of Deconstructing the Cherokee Nation: Town, Region, and Nation Among Eighteenth-Century Cherokees (forthcoming). Kathleen Brown is Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America and Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. Trevor Burnard is Professor of the History of the Americas, History, and Comparative American Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691–1776 and Mastery, Tyranny , and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World. Toby L. Ditz is Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Property and Kinship: Inheritance in Early Connecticut, 1750– 1820. She is currently at work on a book provisionally titled Shipwrecked: Manly Identity and the Culture of Risk Among Philadelphia’s Eighteenth-Century Merchants. Carolyn Eastman is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of A Nation of Speechifiers: Making an American Public After the Revolution. 270 | About the Contributors Thomas A. Foster is Associate Professor of History at DePaul University . He is author of Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America and editor of Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America. Benjamin H. Irvin is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arizona. He is now finalizing a social and cultural history of the Continental Congress, to be published by Oxford University Press. Janet Moore Lindman is Professor of History at Rowan University. She is the coeditor with Michele Lise Tarter of “A Centre of Wonders”: The Body in Early America and author of Bodies of Belief: Baptist Community in Early America. John Gilbert McCurdy is Associate Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University. He is the author of Citizen Bachelors: Manhood and the Creation of the United States. Mary Beth Norton is Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History at Cornell University. She has coedited three collections of essays on women’s history and has written four books about early America, including Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750–1800, Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society, and In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. Ann Marie Plane is Associate Professor of History at University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the author of Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England. Jessica Choppin Roney is Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University . She is the author of “‘Ready to act in defiance of Government’: Colonial Philadelphia Voluntary Culture and the Defense Association of 1747– 1748,” Early American Studies. Natalie A. Zacek is Lecturer in History and American Studies at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1660–1776. ...